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Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at four particularly interesting stories.

22 EU Countries Ratify ACTA

22 member states of the European Union have signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), joining the U.S., Australia, Canada and other countries who have signed it in October 2011.

ACTA is, some contend, a dangerous piece of legislation, shrouded in secrecy and ratified without a healthy and open public discussion. Its signing has sparked protests in Poland, and European rapporteur for ACTA Kader Arif has resigned from his position, calling it a "charade."

Twitter Enables Content Censoring on a Country Basis

Going forward, Twitter will have the ability to censor content in a certain country, while keeping that content available for the rest of the world. While Twitter promises to go about censorship in a transparent manner, some worry that the move will be a blow to freedom of speech in certain countries.

Super Wi-Fi, a new wireless networking standard operating in the "white spaces" between 50 - 700Mhz, has been deployed in New Hanover County, North Carolina. It has many advantages over the current Wi-Fi standards, and further down the line it might bring very fast wireless connections to very large areas.

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